![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Perseid Meteor Shower at Its Peak!
This video shows a compilation of events seen during the peak of the 2010 Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 13, 2010, over Huntsville, Ala. The shower began around July 17, peaked August 12-13 and will be officially over by August 24. The Perseids have been observed for at least 2,000 years and are associated with the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Video: NASA/MSFC/D. Moser, NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
Keywords: perseid; meteor shower; nasa; astronomy; fireball; marshall space flight center
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| Perseid Fireball: Brighter Than Venus
On the night of August 3 at 9:56 p.m. a Perseid meteor -- about 1 inch in diameter and moving at a speed of 134,000 mph -- entered the atmosphere 70 miles above the town of Paint Rock, Ala. At such a tremendous velocity, the meteor cut a path some 65 miles long, finally burning up 56 miles above Macay Lake, just northeast of the town of Warrior. The meteor was about six times brighter than the planet Venus and would be classified as a fireball by meteor scientists.The Perseid radiant was low in ...
Keywords: What -- Earth; Where -- Venus; What -- Dawn; perseid; perseids; meteor; shower; meteors; fireball; venus; comet; nasa.astronomy; marshall space flight center
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